the victim was Rachel...... so as far from a fat man as you can get 
And for a blood clot to enter the circulation it has to form in a blood vessel........... how is that going to happen in paintball? Paintball bruises are clots, yes, but in subcutaneous tissue and involve bleeding from capillaries and minor vessels....... they have no way of getting into the circulation as they are too big. Clots cause problems when they form in a major bloodvessel and then travel in the circulation until they hit a bottleneck, then you have problems..... coronary, stroke etc..... but surface bruises can't do this. A paintball would have to hit hard enough to damage a major vessel to cause a lethal blood clot...... if they could do this I don't think we'd have a sport. The only risk I can see from overshoot is if you recieved a stupid amount that the body couldn't cope with i.e a monster bruise resulting in a tissue "blood lake" this may need to be cut out or could get infected and you'd get an abcess......... but that would need to be a massive bruise (comparable to a seat belt contusion from a head on collision), this happens for the very reason that paintball bruises won't lead to floating clots........ big stuff just can't enter the circulation, it's gotta be broken down first. So a paintball injury resulting in clots would have to be more than just lots of bruises.
Anyone got any actual evidence? I can't find any anywhere.... and before just arguing: I looked pretty hard....... mainly during my research project on anti-coagulants.... so I've got a bit of background in this stuff, I'd be interested if anyone can find anything to suggest it is possible though.
Maybe it's time there was some real paintball research done?
And for a blood clot to enter the circulation it has to form in a blood vessel........... how is that going to happen in paintball? Paintball bruises are clots, yes, but in subcutaneous tissue and involve bleeding from capillaries and minor vessels....... they have no way of getting into the circulation as they are too big. Clots cause problems when they form in a major bloodvessel and then travel in the circulation until they hit a bottleneck, then you have problems..... coronary, stroke etc..... but surface bruises can't do this. A paintball would have to hit hard enough to damage a major vessel to cause a lethal blood clot...... if they could do this I don't think we'd have a sport. The only risk I can see from overshoot is if you recieved a stupid amount that the body couldn't cope with i.e a monster bruise resulting in a tissue "blood lake" this may need to be cut out or could get infected and you'd get an abcess......... but that would need to be a massive bruise (comparable to a seat belt contusion from a head on collision), this happens for the very reason that paintball bruises won't lead to floating clots........ big stuff just can't enter the circulation, it's gotta be broken down first. So a paintball injury resulting in clots would have to be more than just lots of bruises.
Anyone got any actual evidence? I can't find any anywhere.... and before just arguing: I looked pretty hard....... mainly during my research project on anti-coagulants.... so I've got a bit of background in this stuff
, I'd be interested if anyone can find anything to suggest it is possible though.Maybe it's time there was some real paintball research done?
